Honours For New Guinea

Men

IT recently was officially announced that the following awards, for distinguished service, had been made to former temtonans:—

Obe

Lt. : C°l. G. W. L. Townsend, formerly a District Officer in New Guinea.

Mbe

Major H. L. R. Niall, formerly an Assistant District Officer in New Guinea.

Captain W. M. English, formerly a Patrol Officer in New Guinea Captain C. W. Slattery, formerly a Patrol Officer in New Guinea.

Military Cross

Captain F. N. Boisen, formerly of the Education Department, TN Guinea.

Mr. C. E. de F. Pennefather, who retired recently from the Fiji Public Service, is at present a visitor to Australia. Mr Pennefather spent the whole of his official life in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, and in Fiji, and he ended his service in Fiji as Adviser on Native Affairs and member of the Executive and Legis lative Councils. He has purchased pro perty in Fiji, and intends to live there— and, as he is a very young-looking sixty, it is likely that he will live there for a long time.

Mr. W. H. B. Buckhurst, Director of Lands, Mines and Surveys, and Lieut.- Colonel J. L. Mac Duff, have been ap pointed members of the Fiji Mining Board in place of Mr. F. T. M. White and Mr.

L. G. H. Sinclair. Mr. Buckhurst becomes chairman of the Board.